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- From: seismo!hadron!jsdy@sally.utexas.edu (Joseph S. D. Yao)
- Date: Tue, 4 Nov 86 23:13:22 est
- Organization: Hadron, Inc., Fairfax, VA
-
- In article <6197@ut-sally.UUCP>:
- >From: seismo!unido!exunido!hmm (Hans-Martin Mosner)
- >Date: Sat, 1 Nov 86 03:10:54 +0100
- > ... So if I happen to have a file
- >"-rf" in my home directory and do a "rm *f", I'm out of luck :-)
- >I have no solution for this, though...
-
- At least two others have mentioned that something like ./*f does
- wonders (if you are aware that it's needed). My question is, does
- anyone have a need for files that start with '-'? Or is an ounce
- of prevention (not using such files) still worth a pound of cure?
- (Ignore troff font files: I try to.)
-
- Side note: the Instructional WorkBench (IWB), in its Unix(R)
- Fundamentals course, makes specific note that one should avoid
- making files starting with '+' or '-'. It makes this the specific
- subject of one of its programmed-learning questions.
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-
- Joe Yao hadron!jsdy@seismo.{CSS.GOV,ARPA,UUCP}
- jsdy@hadron.COM (not yet domainised)
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- Volume-Number: Volume 8, Number 40
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